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Tuesday, 31 October 2017

This is an easy way to create a background for your card makes and I'm showing you 3 different looks using the same technique. There will be a YouTube video available later today at:

Poppyfield Card Crafts JF

All the cards are 5"x7" with 3 panels decreasing by an eighth of an inch

Glue the top 3 panels together and set aside

You must use glossy card for this technique

Cut the card to size then scrunch a piece of wax paper tightly then open it out

Place one glossy card face up, cover with the wax paper then place the second glossy card face down

Cover the area with a piece of copy paper then, with a hot, dry iron apply the heat to this area for approximately 1 to 2 minutes

Cover the glossy card with your chosen ink colour then, using a paper towel, polish the card (this removes the excess ink and leaves a shine). Glue this to the panels then adhere to the card base

On the blue card I added a die cut from the striplet range (Creative Expressions), a swirl of black gems and a sentiment (Chinese Proverb)

The red and black card had black ribbon adhered to it, the sentiment was stamped and heat embossed onto black card, this was then glued to red card, mounting foam added to the back and 3 black gems adhered to the ribbon

The 3rd, white card base, has panels of brown and primrose card. Once the top panel was coloured and glued to the other panels a yellow ribbon was adhered to it then these were adhered to the main card

Narrow, oblong panels of white, brown and primrose were cut to size and glued together, the sentiment was stamped onto white card with an Archival Ink Pad in Coffee

Monday, 30 October 2017

I started with an ivory, 18cm square (7") base card and add a panel of 'primrose' card, then black and then the top panel, in primrose, as you can see this top panel was embossed

For the verse I typed, onto lemon paper, 'To Our Wonderful Niece' then, using 2 different stamps, I stamped 'with love' above the typed line and 'awesome, wonderful.... below it. When I first saw this particular stamp I bought it to use on our grandson's birthday card when he'll be 10 next year

I die cut 4 circular frames in primrose and glued them together and using the smaller of the two circle dies I die cut one black panel

Foam tape was added to the back of the frame and adhered to the card

The sentiment was stamped with a clear embossing ink pad then covered in white embossing powder, the excess tapped off prior to heat setting it. This was then adhered into the frame

The flowers were die cut, spritzed with water then scrunched and left to dry

I made a narrow bow using white satin ribbon and used both dies in the die set for the ivy

The flowers were then assembled and stamens glued into place. I lightly brushed the flower heads and stamens with a black ink pen

To complete the card I added white tulle, a white satin ribbon, the largest and smallest flowers to the right of the card and adhered the medium size flower onto the left of the frame

I snipped the black ivy in a few places and adhered them to the top and bottom of the card

The envelope was stamped with the 'Birthday Mail' and the flower stamped twice, second generation stamping for the lighter flower. I added a little lemon colouring to the flower and green to the leaves

INGREDIENTS:

Ivory card ~ CraftUK

Primrose and black card ~ Creative Expressions (CE)

Special Birthday Wishes Stamp ~ CE

With Love Stamp ~ my stash

Awesome, Wonderful etc Stamp ~ Woodware

Versafine Black Onyx Ink ~ Tsukineko

Versafine Clear Embossing Ink Pad ~ Tsukineko

White Embossing Powder ~ Hero Arts

Sweet William Flower Die Set ~ CE

Stamens ~ Club Green

Black ink pen ~ ProMarker

Ivy Die Set ~ CE

White tulle ~ CE

Satin ribbon ~ Club Green

Birthday Mail Stamp ~ CE

Flower stamp on envelope ~ my stash

And now for Saturday's card winner.................................................

Using Random.org Name Picker, it has picked....................................................

Littlelamb!!

Congratulations!

Your card and stamp will be posted to you and another congratulations as you're the first to have won 3 weeks in a row.... a 'hat trick' !

(I did have a titter when your name was picked)

I obviously confused some of you, my lovely followers, on Saturday, by adding the extra post explaining I had "technical problems and lost my follow button etc" as two ladies commented on that post, thinking it was part of Saturday's card. As they are regular followers I also added their names into the mix

Saturday, 28 October 2017

Friday, 27 October 2017

Hello everyone.... I seem to be having technical problems with this blog. My 'follow' button and followers have disappeared! I am able to post my daily card thankfully so I hope 'it' rights itself soon!!!

I used elements from the Shadow Box Collection , added polished glitter to the stocking top, die cut 'son' and mounted that onto, yes, mirror card, hence the black shadow!! I'm a glutton for punishment with this mirri card LOL. It is red without an ounce of black anywhere!

INGREDIENTS:

White card stock ~ Papermill Direct

Red card stock ~ Creative Expressions (CE)

Mirror card ~ my stash

Shadow Box Collection ~ CE

Sentiment ~ CE

It would be good to see you visit tomorrow for the Saturday freebie card plus stamp

Thursday, 26 October 2017

A new challenge for Team B starts today at Moving Along With The Times (MAWTT), the lovely Hazel is hosting this and her theme is:

'Add A Charm Or Tag'

We hope that you'll join in with us and let us see what you can design. Please take a stroll over to the MAWTT Blog and see the stunning creations from the rest of the team.

This is my contribution....

I first embossed a panel of white watercolour card then sprinkled 3 different Pixie Powders over the embossed image, spritzed with water and let it dry overnight

I realise that the pattern on each bauble is not clear on the photograph but is in 'the flesh'

I wanted to create a 'distressed look' with this card and whilst it doesn't appeal to everyone (and I used to be one of those people) I must say that I now really enjoy making this kind of 'look' LOL

I highlighted the outer part of the baubles with a gold paint pen then splattered gold liquid onto the card, one of the 'splats' landed right in the centre of a bauble, couldn't have done that had I tried to, so I dabbed gold onto the other centres

Wednesday, 25 October 2017

A warm welcome to two new followers, Max and Greg. Thank you for clicking the 'follow' button

I used a 5" square (CraftUK), white card base for this commission card and stamped (my stash) the baby's clothes onto white card stock, coloured them with water colour pencils (Derwent) then blended the colour using a damp brush and 'fussy' cut them out

To the card base I added 2 'clothes posts and a washing line, added tufts of grass to the bottom of the posts then gently added a few 'scribbled lines' with a green water colour pencil so that they didn't look as if they were floating mid air

I added mounting foam to the back of the baby grow whilst the bib and socks were adhered to the card flat

The sentiment ('Welcome Little' One Die Set - Creative Expressions) was die cut 3 times, glued together then glued onto a small piece of white card stock that had mounting foam added to the back. I ran a blending too,l that already had 'broken china' on it, over the lettering then adhered it to the card. To finish the card I ran double lines around the edge of the card to give it a 'frame'

Tuesday, 24 October 2017

I started with a 5"x7" white card and taped around the whole card to give me a nice, clean border when removed

I used 3 Distress Oxide Inks, but you can use any make you have. I love these particular inks as they blend so well and the finished result is excellent.

I used 'worn lipstick', 'spiced marmalade' & 'cracked pistachio' then, using a blending tool, applied the inks onto the card

Once the card was coloured I removed the 'easy lift off' tape to reveal a clean, white border

From the 'Perspective' Range by Creative Expressions, I die cut 'LOVE' three times on white card then once on brown, to give me a shadow affect, the 'YOU' twice on white and once on brown

I then glued them together, adding the white onto the brown but slightly overlapping, for a shadow, applied more Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear Glue to the back of each word and adhered to the card front

I cut another piece of white card, a little smaller than the original 5"x7" and coloured it to match the card front. I dried the inks with my heat tool then stamped a verse using a Versafine Ink Pad in Onyx Black. Double sided tape was applied to the back prior to adding it to the card

You could use a combination of blues, greens, greys, browns etc which also would be ideal for the 'male' card

Sunday, 22 October 2017

The design was already printed on the paper, I added more colour, with distress markers by Ranger to all the greenery, some turquoise blue to the water, gave the heron and smaller butterfly some colour too

I coloured the larger butterfly, added a little fine gold glitter by WOW then covered it with Ranger's Glossy Accents

I also used glossy accents on various areas on the greenery

The sentiment was stamped with a Versafine Onyx Black ink pad and matted onto white card that had 3D mounting foam added to the back

I used a Wink of Stella Glitter Pen to several areas once the card was completed

I hope to get a suitable picture frame to fit this as I'd like to hang it in my studio

Friday, 20 October 2017

I didn't use any Christmas papers for this card. Sometimes, when using 'traditional' colours you don't really need to add a lot more to your card

This is an 8" square white card base and I added the red and white checked paper to it

I used gold embossing powder to stamp the heart wreath and branches onto ivory card

I matted both onto a plain red card. Before adhering to the card I glued 3 varying lengths of gold ribbon to the oblong piece of card and secured the ribbon onto the back of it

The wreath was also adhered to the card. I used a quickie glue pen to add dots around the wreath and sprinkled red glitter onto them

I then stamped 2 of each baubles onto red card, added gold dots to the top bauble and gold glitter to the bottom one, for the longer ribbon I glued a red star to the bottom of it then attached 3 small gold bows as shown

The embellishments to the top right were made a while ago and I adhered those to the card

The bow was stamped onto glittered red card and fussy cut. I used a gold paint pen around the edges

The glittered gold sentiment was glued to red card stock that had 3D mounting foam on the back

Thursday, 19 October 2017

This is a 6"x6" white card base with a layer of pink, white, and a final top panel of white

This stamp set comes with 3 stamps for the flamingo, as you can see on the package below. I used only 2 stamps for the body, using a 'pale tomato' ink pad (make unknown) then stamped it again with 'tattered rose' ink and finally 'spun sugar'. I then re-stamped 'Florence' on spare card and fussy cut it to use as a mask, covered her with it so that I could colour the remainder of the card

'Tumbled glass' and 'broken china' inks were used for the water then using the 'ripple' stamp from the set I inked it with 'broken china' but inked it 3 times to give me a more defined image on the water

Still keeping Florence masked I stamped the 'rushes' with 'bundled sage' distress ink

I added a mask for the sun then dusted 'tumbled glass' 'spiced marmalade' and 'worn lipstick' for the sky

The sentiment, which I love, was stamped with a 'Versafine' Clear Stamp Pad, then 'red regular' embossing powder sprinkled over, excess removed and heat set

I die cut a narrow frame, twice, on white card, using dies 11 and 12 from the Tonic set, glued them together and adhered them to the finished image

I used the third stamp, inked with 'worn lipstick' to add to the bottom left of the envelope and used the same sentiment and colour to add to the back of the envelope

Tuesday, 17 October 2017

Rather a lengthy tutorial today with lots of pictures. There is also a video on YouTube showing extra cards at:

Poppyfield Card Crafts JF

I'm having to do two separate videos and the first one is still loading on YouTube!!

I'll start with the....INGREDIENTS:

DL white card stock ~ Woodware

6x6" card stock ~ ?Woodware (unsure about this one as I've had these cards a long time!)

Chicken Wire Background Stamp ~ JustRite

Never Give Up Stamp ~ Visible Image UK

A Friend Is Stamp ~ Creative Expressions (CE)

Fossilized Amber & Spiced Marmalade Distress Oxide Inks ~ Ranger

Bundles Sage Distress Ink ~ Ranger

Clear Embossing Powder ~ WOW

Versafine Onyx Black Ink Pad ~ Tsukineko

Pre-inked 'smoothies' ~ CE

Masks ~ That Special Touch

Just A Note Die ~ CE

Cosmic Shimmer Dries Clear PVA Adhesive

MISTI

Platinum Machine ~ Spellbinders

The above items are all the ingredients used for both cards.

The items shown below are used for this first card

I placed my DL card into the MISTI, placed the 'chicken wire' stamp in position, inked it with 'bundled sage' distress ink then stamped the card

I then swapped the stamp for the sentiment one, placed that into position, picked it up with the MISTI lid and inked it with Versafine Onyx Black then immediately sprinkled the clear embossing powder over it, removed the excess powder, and with my preheated heat tool heat set it. This creates a very glossy and raised image, and, as you know, one of my favourite techniques, so if you have a clear embossing powder I urge you to give it a try!

On the front of the envelope I inked the same stamp, placed part of it to the lower left hand corner and stamped the partial image and, on the envelope back, I stamped 'with love' in the same ink

For card 2 I used a 'home made' mask, if you look again at the picture of the ingredients you'll see part of a die cut black card and this is what I used as a 'mask' for this card. So remember when you are die cutting flowers etc and before you throw the left over card into the bin you just may be able to reuse it for something else, as I did

The background is subtle but click on the picture and you'll see the outline of the die. I used a pre-inked 'smoothie' to add colour, over the mask, as a background

Using Distress Oxide Inks I coloured a strip of white card with 'spiced marmalade' and the other side with 'fossilized amber'

I die cut the sentiment twice, glued them together then adhered to the card front. I placed part of the same mask to the bottom left of the the envelope and added colour using the same blue inked smoothie

You could make a batch of 'background cards' with matching envelopes and when you come to need a card in a hurry all you have to do is add the sentiment

Until tomorrow

June x

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